Impossible Presence

This chapter reviews the book The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History (2015), by Benjamin Schreier. In The Impossible Jew, Schreier chal...

This chapter defends the argument of Chapter 3, optimistic argument 1 (OA1), by focusing on eight objections: 1) the successor objection: is there not a successor problem to any so...

This chapter argues that the very prospect of witnessing in late modern public culture is defined by countervailing imperatives: the publicly lauded ideal that bearing witness to t...

Abstract This book explains what we mean by “the meaning of life,” illuminates which kind of meaning is possible, which kind is impossible, and argues for how to ...

Abstract Much has been written about migration and health. Absent until now, has been a book that directly addresses forced migration, health, ethics, and justice...

This chapter considers to what extent the desire for presence is destined from the beginning to impossibility and unrealizability. It ponders how much this presence can reproduce, ...

Presence in the Online World: A Contemplative Perspective and Practice Guide for Educatorsis an edited collection that addresses the question of how we can bring the insights of co...

This concluding chapter examines the continued presence of NFL Films' traditional practices—and the values they deliver—at a time when the National Football League (NFL) evidences ...